The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-14
FOREIGN
Tho London Times Resumes Its At
tacks on the ParneIlites.
Parneil Reported to be Sick After
His Journey.
Progress Made In the Committee on
the Crimes Bill.

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publication Of regular articles Intended to
show a connection between ''Parnellism and
Crime" The present series Of articles IA
entitled, Behind the Scenes in America" !"
The matter is the result Of an inquiry which
the Times says 1t instituted last summer, in
to the relations between the American Feni-
ans and the Parnellites, and purports to con-
tain number Of the secret records of the
Clan-na-Gael Society, obtained through a
schism Of the society, and quarrels among
its leaders. Among the documents published
are what is alleged to be copies Of the con-
stitutlon OF the society, lists of its officers
az various ep0chs, letters from its past and
present leaders, secret circulars and reports
OF the society's conventions. The Times
says its inquiries are not yet complete, for
the reason that the society has been reOrgan-
lied so that its system OF working has be-
come a seemingly impenetrable mystery.
Editorially commenting on its present reye-
lations, the Times says: ut Is impossible
to doubt that. the policy Of the Parneli-
ties, and therefore Of Mr.. Gladstone, Is ulti-
mately dictated by the heads Of the society
and by Patrick Ford"
his journey yesterday from Ireland 10 Lon
don. Physicians advise Parnell to proceed
at once to BOurnemouth, where he will re-
main until Tuesday, at which date he ex-
poets to be able to attend Parliament.
LONDON, May 13.-Edward Samuel Norris,
Progressive Conservative member for the
Lime House division Of tower hamlets, asked
the government in the House Of Commons
this afternoon, whether, in the event Of the
passage Of the coercion bill, they would con-
slider the question of recommending to the
Queen as one of the features OF her Jubilee
celebration the granting Of general amnesty
70 all prisoners in Ireland under detention
Tor agrarian crimes, but not guilty Of perso-
nal violence.
w; Fl. Smith, answering for the govern
ment, said they were not in position to
make any such engagement.
!, IL may be convenient to sum up roughly
the progress made In the committee upon the
crimes bill. According to the parliamentary
papers issued yesterday, the governments
original draft has become so unrecOgnizabe
that in order to make the debates intelligi-
Bile, II has been necessary TO issue TO the
members a reprint of the clause In the cOndi-
tion to which it has been transformed.
The six days debate on that part Of the
clause which has been passed has swollen it
70 three times its original size. The 10 lines
tnat nave been passed have grown 10 50 lines
In the process. The most Of the additions
take the form Of checks and restrictions.
The bill was very badly drawn in order to
secure brevity and consequent shortness of
debate. In view Of these facts, the charge
OF obstruction Is ridiculous.
MIR. Lockwood, Liberal member for York,
utOfNu Ill dluCnutueuL WIFI LIlttDItcL Oh linz
iting the operation Of the clause TO the most
serious offences.
Attorney General Webster said the govern
ment was unable to accept the amendment.
III any one offence was worse than another,
against which the clause was directed, it was
q conspiracy to boycott.
T. T. OConnor said the government had
at last let the cat out of the bag in admitting
that the most stringent powers Of the bill
had for their object the suppression Of boy
Sir William Vernon Harcourt pointed out
that there was no such provision In the act
OF 1882, and said he would draw the atten-
tlon OF the House to the seriousness Of Civ
Ing power to inquire into such vague, indefi-
mite offences.
The amendment was rejected-257 to 40.
BERLIN, May I3.-The Post says the Car
approved the proposal Of the Russian minis
terial Council that teachers and pupils in
the German gymDasa and schools In the
Baltic provinces be required to use the Rus
sian language. as a medium of education.
Ihe Lohengrin" affair at Paris made ire
vocable the German governments decision
not to take part in the Paris Exposition. A
lew German traders, however, will be repre-
sented In the exhibition.
CAPE Town, May 13.-Sir Arthur Have
lock, Governor Of Natal, has been instructed
to proclaim Zululand, excepting that portion
constituting the New BOer republic a Brit
ish possession. The New Boer republic oc-
eupIes tne western part OF Zululand, but
does not reach the coast, and the area is
about 1900 square miles. The capital is
Vryhrd
ROME, May 13.-It Is stated that the Pope
will communicate at once with Archbishop
Corrigan regarding the case of Dis sfcciynn.
lie Will approve the ArahbfshOp 5 conduct
and charge him te-warn McGlynn once Tor
all that ii he does not present himself before
the supreme ecclesiastical authority at Rome
within forty days he will be formally excom-
inundated.
Foreign Notes.
Parnell returns to London unfit for pro-
longed work.
On pressure from the Parnellites, Mr. Nor
ley proposes that he and Mr.. Gladstone con-
fer with Messrs. Parnell and Dillon In order
to arrange for concerted action on amend
ments to the crimes bill
Gladstone Is opposed to purely obstructive
tactics. He wants the Parneliitus to fight
the clauses Of the bill on the merits Of the
amendments.
The breach in the personal relations Of
Gladstone with Lord Harrington and Cham
berlain is now complete. Until recently
their political differences did not cause ces-
sation Of their personal intercourse. Now,
however, when they meet in the lobbies Of
the House Of Commons they do not speak
and do not even exchange salutations. Cham
berlain sits close to Gladstone in the House,
but neither makes a sign of recognition.